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Sir,
Your Kind favour of the 16th August I duly read, & was happy to find, that on your perusal of the propositions &c they met your approbation, I have to assure you Sir, that on providing the Provision, Cloathing, & other matters, as they ought to be for such a passage, & with good Ships, British Built & properly fitted; such as I think is the intention of Government to have provided, they cannot be transported under £24.5.0 a man, Government receiving the benefits of the remaining provisions (Eight months being laid in for the passage) as well as the compleat suits of extra cloathing. Beds &c which it is intended by these propositions to be given them & which will amount to 65/-. each person & is included in the above Sum, but to convey them with the articles as they were before allow'd & the remaining Provision &c to be the property of the Contractor, I can transport them at the Sum of £21 a head, & it is impossible for any person (doing Justice) to perform the Contract, for less, which I should have been happy, to have convinced you of, from the Price of Freight, Provision, &c, with the remaining gain arising to me.
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